935301458 | Enclosure | Large fields that were enclosed by large scale commerical farmers | 0 | |
244227220 | Jethro Tull | Invented the seed drill, which improved agricultural efficiency | 1 | |
1002123162 | Crop rotation | Changing what is planted on a piece of land to avoid depleting the soil | 2 | |
183886025 | Flying Shuttle & Spinning Jenny | Sped up the weaving process | 3 | |
905623607 | Water frame | Used water power to run multiple spinning wheels | 4 | |
126458775 | Power loom | Improved production and quality | 5 | |
1256684 | Cotton gin | Increased the American production of cotton to meet British demand | 6 | |
617211148 | The need for cheap, convenient power | What caused the development of the steam engine? | 7 | |
134795515 | James Watt | Improved the steam engine | 8 | |
257877170 | Robert Fulton | Built the first steam powered ship | 9 | |
876207418 | Clermont | First steam powered ship | 10 | |
627365796 | Canals | Built to connect natural bodies of water | 11 | |
140547335 | Turn Pikes | Private roads that companies built | 12 | |
81357426 | George Stephenson | Built the first rail line in 1825 | 13 | |
845417383 | Liberpool and Manchester | The first rail line connected which two cities? | 14 | |
586608153 | "The Rocket" | Stephenson's locomotive, built in 1829. | 15 | |
614091608 | Railroads | Caused industries to grow and created jobs | 16 | |
514271619 | Samuel Slater | Left England and opened a textile industry in America | 17 | |
611205974 | Lowell, Massachusetts | The 1st mechanized textile factory was where? | 18 | |
458196838 | The post civil war technology boom | What caused industry to rise? | 19 | |
34521241 | Stock | Limited ownership rights for a company, sold to raise money | 20 | |
154361503 | Corporation | A business owned by many stock holders who have limited ownership | 21 | |
281746715 | Monopoly | When one company controls a product from raw material to completion | 22 | |
580597972 | Cartel | An association of businesses that fixes prices, and sets quotas. | 23 | |
787698110 | Revolutions and the Napoleonic Wars | Disrupted Europe's economy | 24 | |
450361639 | Belgium | First European city other than Britain to industrialize | 25 | |
701868961 | British workers | Smuggled in machine plans in 1799 | 26 | |
63315290 | Germany | Becomes Europe's leading producer by 1871 | 27 | |
951530821 | France | Industrialized slowly, as agriculture remained strong | 28 | |
925027043 | Wealth gap | Widened as non industrial countries fell behind | 29 | |
531815293 | European nations and the U.S. | Began exploiting colonies for resources | 30 | |
182573041 | Imperialism | Spread due to the need for raw materials and markets | 31 | |
886668074 | Europe and the U.S. | Grew into economic power | 32 | |
900385707 | Africa and Asia | Lagged economically | 33 | |
78331560 | Increased democracy and social reform | Rise of the middle class led to what? | 34 | |
78331845 | Alexander Grahm Bell | Invented the telephone | 35 | |
445060327 | Guglielmo Marconi | Invented the radio | 36 | |
701730699 | Nikolas Otto | Invented the had powered, internal combustion engine | 37 | |
831167759 | Henry Ford | Brought the assembly line to automobile introduction | 38 | |
576205868 | The Wright Brothers | Built the first airplane | 39 | |
197846451 | Samuel Morse | Invented the telegraph | 40 | |
822552723 | Louis Pasteur | Developed germ theory, which is the link between bacteria and diseases | 41 | |
245199533 | Robert Koch | Discovered the bacteria that causes tuberculosis | 42 | |
515087309 | William Morton | First to use anesthesia during surgery | 43 | |
179806904 | Joseph Lister | Antiseptics could prevent infection | 44 | |
819773304 | Florence Nightingale | Started the worlds first school of nursing | 45 | |
656370079 | Charles Darwin | Theory of evolution | 46 | |
417810918 | Natural selection | Idea that members of each species compete to survive, allowing the strong to reproduce | 47 | |
835280000 | Gregor Mendel | Discovered patterns of the inherited traits and began the science of genetics | 48 | |
395991356 | John Dalton | All matter is made of atoms | 49 | |
581586722 | Biminti Mendeleev | Periodic table of elements | 50 | |
242524440 | Marie Curie | Discovered radioactivity, which means atoms of the elements can spontaneously release charge particles | 51 | |
840284859 | Archiology, sociology, and anthropology | The three ideas of social science that began in the 1800s | 52 | |
949320276 | Psychology | Study of the human mind and behavior | 53 | |
866399364 | Ivan Pavlov | Believed human actions were really unconscious reactions | 54 | |
537394666 | Ivan Pavlov | Believed human actions were really unconscious reactions | 55 | |
537394667 | Sigmund Freud | Studied the human subconscious and developed psychoanalysis | 56 | |
537394669 | Id | The pleasure seeking impulse of the brain | 57 | |
537394670 | Ego | Rationalizes what you can do | 58 | |
537394671 | Superego | Rationalizes what you should do | 59 | |
770537547 | Thomas Edison | Held over 1000 patents, including the light bulb and phonograph | 60 |
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